Posts in category Bikes

Now that I’ve spent about 1500km touring, Bikepacking and mountain biking with Red I think its fair to make an initial assessment of the choices I made and share my thought processes for this self build.
To read about how I originally ” rescued” the frame that would become Red click >here<
Aim of the project:
After se [...]

On my return from cycle touring in Africa I didn’t have enough cash lying around to buy a car, and more importantly I didn’t want one. Sadly the public transport where I live is awful and to take Mr Hyde on a train costs €6 per day. So I needed a problem solver.
Enter my second hand Brompton
Initially it was just meant as a means [...]

Dr Jekyll is born.
Dr Jekyll the early days:
Dr Jekyll is a slighty too heavy commuter who is bored with riding to work every day, with his slightly too fat tyres and heavy steel frame. So one night he got naked, threw off his mudguards and tried on a couple of panniers…..
Mr Hyde is born:
Once he’s wearing 10-25kg of pannier [...]